Talk:Great Yarmouth Pleasure Beach

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Edited and added some information to this page. Also images of the Park in 1909 and images of the Scenic Railway. Generally reads a lot better now and is accurately to date. -- Richard Mills 13:42 13 February 2009

GYPB has a great deal of history, so it is a great pity that this page reads like little more than a glorified advert - what about the 100 year old wooden roller coaster? Come on folks you can do better! The Coaster was built in 1928 - does this make it the UKs oldest still in operation?
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GYPB History

18 Feb 2008 - 100 years old? - no, it is only 75 at most - Did you get that from the erroneous BBC website that states it is 100 and the oldest rollercoaster in the country?

However I have updated a paragraph on the incorrectly termed 'rollercoaster'. It was built as a Scenic Railway and in 1932 not 1928. Margate's scenic railway is the holder of the 'oldest' title in the UK having been built in 1920. However I agree with you that a pleasure park with this antiquity deserves a far better history than this. Someone needs to do some serious research. Have a look at my current (in progress) history of Barry Island Pleasure Park and then compare it to the Great Yarmouth entry.

It could be that the BBC are confused because there were several roller coasters at Great Yarmouth before the current ride. There was an early Switchback built in 1887 that was moved to different sites on the pleasure beach between installation and 1892. Finally in 1909 it was dismantled and moved to Honley Pleasure Park in Huddersfield. There was an earlier scenic railway built to replace the switchback in 1909 – this ride was destroyed by fire in 1919 and rebuilt, but its lease ran out in 1928 and it was purchased instead by Aberdeen Beach Amusement Park and re-sited there in 1929. The earlier scenic railway was replaced by a Figure 8 roller coaster erected in 1929 that was finally replaced by the current 1932 ride. It is almost certain that all three of these previous historical rides were designed and built by the most important roller coaster designer in the world, LaMarcus Thompson, in the United States. 21stCenturyGreenstuff (talk) 19:07, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Great Yarmouth Pleasure Beach
I have had a stab at solving the copyvio problem with this entry. See Talk:Great Yarmouth Pleasure Beach/Temp. As far as I could see the only actual copyvio was with the lead which someone had lifted straight off the park's website. The main section on the historic roller coaster was not copied from anywhere as I compiled it. I have also added an amusement park info box and generally tidied up the entry. How does that look to you now? 21stCenturyGreenstuff (talk) 12:46, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

The only operating wooden roller coaster from the 1930's ?
Where did that come from?

Grand National at Blackpool Pleasure Beach opened in 1935 Roller Coaster at Blackpool Pleasure Beach opened in 1933 Zipper Dipper oat Blackpool Pleasure Beach opened in 1934

All wooden roller coasters that opened in the 1930's and all historic? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.106.1.120 (talk) 16:57, 19 October 2008 (UTC)